Winter Light: David Ogle
An installation which together forms a luminous canopy of interlocking neon branches, Loomin (2020) by David Ogle has transformed the waterfront outside the Southbank Centre.
Loomin is one of a number of returning artworks and new commissions that comprise Winter Light, an outdoor exhibition across the Southbank Centre which celebrates how the medium of light can transform our physical spaces.
Ogle’s installation occupies a prominent spot outside our Royal Festival Hall, on the South Bank of the River Thames, and in this video, the artist explains how he sought to respond to this location and ‘create a piece that would confront someone in a space, but didn’t have the weight you might associate with sculpture’.
‘Light has this property, like water or sound, that is sort of volumetric, it unfolds and transforms and fills a space’
David Ogle
Photographs of Loomin, 2020, by David Ogle courtesy of, and copyright of, Morley von Sternberg